Latest light on Abraham Lincoln : and war-time memories . ture.*^ This statement of the distinguished sculptor is peculiarlyapplicable to Abraham Lincoln. His habits of profound andprolonged meditation usually resulted in painful melancholywhich never failed to be revealed in the expressions of hiscountenance. And the lower lip was the one feature thatmost fully and faithfully disclosed the anguish of his souland it therefore grew into an expressive symbol of the greattenderness of his nature and his deep sympathy with humansuffering and sorrow. Had Lincolns melancholy been accompanied by a sp
Latest light on Abraham Lincoln : and war-time memories . ture.*^ This statement of the distinguished sculptor is peculiarlyapplicable to Abraham Lincoln. His habits of profound andprolonged meditation usually resulted in painful melancholywhich never failed to be revealed in the expressions of hiscountenance. And the lower lip was the one feature thatmost fully and faithfully disclosed the anguish of his souland it therefore grew into an expressive symbol of the greattenderness of his nature and his deep sympathy with humansuffering and sorrow. Had Lincolns melancholy been accompanied by a spirit ofresentment or of self-assertion and defense that lip would havebeen held firm in its place and kept thin as were the lips ofJackson, who also knew anxiety and sorrow but was never de-spondent nor tenderly sympathetic. Lincolns depression arosefrom the kindness of his heart and his deep and tendersympathy and hence his plainest feature, as Carpenterdesignates his mouth, was expressive of much firmness andgentleness. 4^ Portraits of Lincoln, p. 25,. & ^ .5 ns 3 I8 i 1—5 r^ ffi ^ § O X m ^ cu C-H rt o a J a n^ hn ?5 (J o w n c Ph o a c o hJ r§ H 03 43 B p c -^ u, o 0-1 is o fl) Ci f/l fl) OJ ^ H Ill THE JAQUESS-GILMORE MISSION * TO the re-election of Abraham Lincoln as President,and the final overthrow of the Rebellion, the Jaquess-Gilmore Embassy of 1863-64 contributed more largelythan did any other single effort of individuals, or any oneachievement or act of the Government during that period. Having been an active participant in the struggles of thatPresidential campaign and having given the history of thatmission careful consideration for more than half a century,I have no hesitation in saying that the disclosures secured bythat embassy and widely published at the crisis hour of thatcontest, turned the tide of battle and saved the nation from theruinous defeat of President Lincoln and the dissolution of theUnion. The story of that unique mission and of its decisive
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